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CHIP BACK. (Apglieation filed Oct. 21, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

STANLEY A. COHEN, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NE\V YORK CONSOLIDATED CARD COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CHIP-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,478, dated January 10, 1899.

Application filed October 21, 1898. Serial No. 694,159. (No model.)

part hereof, which illustrate one embodiment of my invention.

In the drawings, in which like letters of .reference indicate like parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a plan view of a chip-rack, showing the shiftable or movable bottom in clotted lines. 'Fig. 2 is a section thereof on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail brokenaway sectional view showing the bottom as shifted to allow the chips in the pockets to drop.

In the drawings, a is the base of the appae ratus, which is preferably provided with a standard b, which serves as a pivot upon which the chip and card carrying block or carrier-body A revolves. A is preferably round and rotatable, though not necessarily so, and provided with a recess 'c to receive the pivot-standard b. A screw or other fastening d may be provided to hold the parts together, yet leave the carrier-body free to. rotate. Card-receiving recesses 6 may be provided in the carrier-body A to receive and store decks or packs of playing-cards f, and the apparatus may be provided with a suitable handle g for transportation or handling purposes.

The carrier-body A is preferably provided peripherally with chip-receiving pockets h, having finger-slots t openingto the periphery j of the carrier-body. A mortise or recess 76 is provided around the preferably-enlarged portion 6 of the pivot-standard b, and a movable chip-supporting means or bottom Z is located in this mortise and swings or rotates upon the said portion 2) and is carried by the carrier-body in its movement. able bottom Z is shown as provided with fin- This carrier-body This mov gers m, which are adapted to support the stacks of chips 12 in the pockets h. Thus the bottom-is common to the several pockets,

and a movement thereof will allow chips in different pockets to fall. These fingers are preferably curvilinear, the sidesof adjacent fingers presenting a circle of the same or greater radius as the radius of the pockets h, as will be seen by the dotted lines. The bottom Z is preferably provided with an operating-handle 0, adapted to enter a recess 19 in the carrier-body, and with a pin-and-slot connection q r with the said carrier-body, by which the said bottom is carried by the said carrier-body in its movement, but leaving the bottom free to be shifted or moved with respect to the carrier-body.

When the parts are in the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the stacks of chips are supported by the fingers m. The chips may be grasped by their edges by the fingers of a player passing through the slots 01 and removed, or the players fingers may be inserted through the space between the fingers m and the side walls of the pockets. If it be desired to remove chips in the variouspockets from the apparatus all at once, the bottom I may be swung or rotated on the carrier-body by the handle 0 into the position shown in Fig. 3 until the fingers m pass from beneath the pockets h and under the solid portions intervening between the pockets, whereupon, their supports being removed, the stacks of chips will fall to the table upon which the rack rests, and the rack may be removed, (by the handle g,) leaving the chips properly stacked upon the table ready for use.

Having described my invention by specific reference to one embodiment thereof, as re quired by law, I declare that what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a chip-rack, the combination of a carrier-body provided with chip-receiving pockets and movable chip-supporting means com mon to the several chip-receiving pockets, lo cated below the carrier body and adapted to effect the support of thechips in the pockets when in one position and to allow chips in different pockets todrop when shifted to an other of its positions.

2. In a chip-rack, the combination of a carrier body provided with peripherally arranged chip-receiving pockets and a swinging bottom common to the said pockets and having fingers adapted to support the chips in the pockets when in one position, and adapted when swung to remove the fingers from be neath the said chips to allow the chips in the several pockets to fall.

3. In a chipraek, the carrier-body having the pockets 7L slotted attheir edges, combined with a bottom common to the several chipreceiving' pockets, having fingers coming beneath said pockets and leaving a free space between said fingers and the sides of the pockets for facilitating the insertion of the finger ALBERT S. COHEN, HANS v. Bmnsnn. 

